With customers deploying ACI with service insertion, people are constantly asking both design and implementation related questions such as: When should I use 1 ARM vs 2 ARM topology for services? Can I use BIG-IP in HA mode? Can I use/share...

I preview the F5 Agility 2015 conference happening August 4-6 at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, MD. Agility 2015 will lay the foundation for your business to innovate new paths to success, expand throug...

In my previous article on the history of DevOps, I outlined the following pillars of the DevOps methodology Management Integration Communication and information sharing Collaboration Automation Measurement The Third Pillar The third pillar in the...

BIG-IP APM supports Microsoft Windows 10 the same day it is released! Support for Windows 10 in APM will be staggered, with BIG-IP v11.5.3 being the first version of F5 APM to offer support. Support will start via an BIG-IP Engineering...

In this edition of Whiteboard Wednesday, Jason tackles the basics of Clustered Multiprocessing, or CMP.
Resources
Clustered Multiprocessing White Paper
In the age of software defined everything, does your device architecture matter?
CMP Overview...

I’d like to welcome you to a new blog about the TCP profiles, their features, and how to get the most out of them. Today I’ll discuss two improvements introduced in 11.6.0 that are meant to work together for small file transfers, or any...

Duo Security integrates into F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager as a full featured two factor authentication solution and offers inline self-enrollment and an interactive, user-friendly login experience that enables the user to select from a wide...

Does moving to stateless microservices eliminate state in the network? One of the ways to increase scalability of services – and applications – is to go “stateless.” The reasons for this are many, but in general by eliminating the mapping between...

In this edition of WhiteBoard Wednesday, we look at the Transport Layer Security (TLS) Handshake. TLS has become an extremely popular protocol used today, and it's important to know some of the details of how a client and server interact...

Node.js is an open source runtime environment for server-side and network based applications. Node.js contains all the components needed to build a functioning website. But, you need to think of Node.js as a big tool box. As with...

With 2015 crossing the half way point, let's take a look at some technology trends thus far. Breaches: Well, many databases are half empty due to the continued rash of intrusions while the crooks are half full with our personal information....

In this video, John talks about the way the BIG-IP handles inbound connections that match more than one Virtual Server. How does the BIG-IP decide which Virtual Server gets the connection? Check out the video and find out!

F5 Animated Whiteboards offer a quick, visual story to some of today's technology challenges and how we can help solve those headaches. Our latest covers Next Generation IPS and how SSL encryption of applications is becoming the norm. SSL...

iControl REST. It’s iControl SOAP’s baby, brother, introduced back in TMOS version 11.4 as an early access feature but released fully in version 11.5.
Several articles on basic usage have been written on iControl REST (see the resources at the...

If you're presently volunteering to wear the hat of “SSL/TLS Vulnerability Manager”, then you’ve come to the realization that patching one vulnerability often raises others. In wake of revelations about mass surveillance, many of us moved...

This bl;og post is adapted from the original post here. 最近，F5在亞太屢獲獎賞。四項大獎的獲得，明確證明了F5持續的市場與技術領導性。F5一直致力於提供全方位的客戶經驗，並且很榮幸的獲得許多業界專家與分析師對於我們的肯定。這些獎賞屬於亞太區每一位F5員工的榮耀。F5全心支持我們的夥伴成長，並且為客戶提供方案與服務，這些努力讓F5從平凡的廠商茁壯成為一個在企業混合環境為數千應用提供優化與安全的可信賴夥伴。 ...

I’m excited to be heading to New York this week for the AWS Summit, and not just for the chance to discover strange new life forms. It’s a a well timed event as we are doing a lot of work in with public cloud services, and I’m looking...